Working Paper: NBER ID: w2711
Authors: Douglas Coate; Michael Grossman
Abstract: Prior to 1985, ten states adopted some kind of indexing provisions for their personal income tax systems. Seven of these states subsequently suspended their indexing laws for one or more years. In this paper we examine the states' experience with income tax indexing and see what lessons can be drawn from it. We describe the indexing statutes, and estimate simple econometric models of both the decisions to adopt indexing and to renege on a promise to index.
Keywords: carbon monoxide; blood pressure; ambient air pollution; NHANES II; SAROAD
JEL Codes: I12; Q53
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| carbon monoxide (Y70) | diastolic blood pressure (E50) |
| carbon monoxide (Y70) | systolic blood pressure (P24) |
| carbon monoxide (Y70) | blood pressure (G21) |
| other criteria air pollutants (Q53) | blood pressure (G21) |